SPANISH authorities have dismantled a Malaga-based money laundering network, arresting two women and a man and freezing real estate assets linked to Moroccan drug traffickers.
Policia Nacional officers arrested three individuals in Melilla, believed to be relatives of the leader of a Moroccan drug trafficking organisation who was previously detained in Malaga in 2024.
The group is accused of laundering proceeds from a Morocco–Spain drug trafficking network that primarily smuggled hashish by sea, allegedly using property and financial transactions to conceal the illicit origin of the funds.
As part of ‘Operation Sampa’, police seized five properties, four in Melilla and one in the Málaga town of Sierra de Yeguas, valued at a combined €960,000.
Authorities also froze bank accounts holding €18,170 and confiscated a vehicle worth €30,000.
The arrests form part of the wider investigation stemming from ‘Operation Kabus-Igriega’, which in April 2024 led to the seizure of 1,500 kg of hashish off the coast of Almeria and the arrest of 12 individuals linked to the trafficking network.
With the latest arrests, police believe they have effectively ‘dismantled’ the gang.
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